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  1. Re:'armless on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    That would be one-armed bandits.

  2. Re:Don't mess with Texas on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    'North-African gangs", is that some kind of politically correct way of saying Islamic extremists?

  3. Re:Like deer hunting in Texas on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Oh noway, you can take a doe or buck with your bow licence, you can take a buck on your firearm licence and a doe if you have a doe permit and you can take a buck on your muzzle loading licence; so that a total of 4 max, not dozens, but the true is most people take zip. Now in Michigan you can take a feral domestic pig on any licence, as many as you want too, that doesn't include wild pigs either, just escaped domestic pigs.
    Now that's a lot closer to what they were doing, baiting feral pigs for open season.

  4. Re:Seems he has more of a clue on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    References

    IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Summary for Policymakers, p. 5 (the 5th AR is published)

    B.D. Santer et.al., “A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere,” Nature vol 382, 4 July 1996, 39-46

    Gabriele C. Hegerl, “Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method,” Journal of Climate, v. 9, October 1996, 2281-2306

    V. Ramaswamy et.al., “Anthropogenic and Natural Influences in the Evolution of Lower Stratospheric Cooling,” Science 311 (24 February 2006), 1138-1141

    B.D. Santer et.al., “Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes,” Science vol. 301 (25 July 2003), 479-483.

    In the 1860s, physicist John Tyndall recognized the Earth's natural greenhouse effect and suggested that slight changes in the atmospheric composition could bring about climatic variations. In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first speculated that changes in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.

    National Research Council (NRC), 2006. Surface Temperature Reconstructions For the Last 2,000 Years. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

    Church, J. A. and N.J. White (2006), A 20th century acceleration in global sea level rise, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L01602, doi:10.1029/2005GL024826.

    The global sea level estimate described in this work can be downloaded from the CSIRO website.

    http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cl... anomalies/index.html

    http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/d...

    http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

    T.C. Peterson et.al., "State of the Climate in 2008," Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v. 90, no. 8, August 2009, pp. S17-S18.

    I. Allison et.al., The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science, UNSW Climate Change Research Center, Sydney, Australia, 2009, p. 11

    http://www.giss.nasa.gov/resea...

    http://science.nasa.gov/headli... 01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm

    Levitus, et al, "Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems," Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L07608 (2009).

    L. Polyak, et.al., “History of Sea Ice in the Arctic,” in Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes, U.S. Geological Survey, Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2, January 2009, chapter 7

    R. Kwok and D. A. Rothrock, “Decline in Arctic sea ice thickness from submarine and ICESAT records: 1958-2008,” Geophysical Research Letters, v. 36, paper no. L15501, 2009

    http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_ice....

    National Snow and Ice Data Center

    World Glacier Monitoring Service

  5. Re:Seems he has more of a clue on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Interesting, most of the references on your linked page is from 2006, the newest is 2011. NASA seems to think that there is Decreased snow cover (the 2011 reference), yet when you follow their link to the actual data, you see the snow cover anomaly hovers around zero; if there newest reference is that far off now, one wonders about the older stuff.

  6. Re:Seems he has more of a clue on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid the burden of proof is on you to show the results of all your experiments proving climate change is not happening. The overwhelming evidence we have is that *is* occurring - so any disproof of this needs presenting far more than any more corroboration.

    Which is how science works, BTW.

    Warming trend has been flatline for over 18 years, the Arctic summer sea-ice that was predicted to be gone two years ago, is recovering and Antarctic seaice is near record levels; the burden is on you.

  7. Re:SeaWorld on Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable · · Score: 1

    It shrinks during polymerization, leading to porosity problems, especially in large pieces.

  8. Re:Hello Computer... on Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable · · Score: 1

    I thought the "Galaxy Quest" solution was pretty good, only one crewmember could speak to the computer; that way if the bad-guys kill the correct person the whole ship was kaput.

  9. Re:ST only needed transparent aluminum for... on Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable · · Score: 1

    Like talking into a computer mouse wasn't suspicious.

  10. Re:ST only needed transparent aluminum for... on Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable · · Score: 1

    Since the Whales could see out of the tank, and the tank was moving, without visual cues matching, it seems like the Whales might get sea-sick! Sea-sick Whales, now that would be strange.

  11. Re:But will it blend? on Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable · · Score: 1

    Which round? the new Eco-Bullets that the Army was using would often bounce off a truck windshield

  12. Re:It's my choice to kill my kid! on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    In the Army, you didn't have to get all of those shots, but if you didn't get the shots, and contracted an illness those shots would have prevented there would have been a Courts Martial for you. I'd be open to anti-vaxers being criminally liable for harm done to their children by neglecting their vaccinations.

  13. Re:Skating, not butthole surfing on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    My comment was poorly worded, the "them" was meant to be the IPCC and Climatologists in general, not specifically the IPCC alone;

    the GAO found that the State Department provided $19 million for administrative and other expenses, while the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) provided $12.1 million in technical support through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), averaging an annual $3.1 million to the IPCC over 10 years -- $31.1 million so far. U.S. Taxpayers Cover Nearly Half the Cost of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel

    but for Climatologists and Green Energy in general

    According to the GAO, annual federal climate spending has increased from $4.6 billion in 2003 to $8.8 billion in 2010, amounting to $106.7 billion over that period. The money was spent in four general categories: technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, science to understand climate changes, international assistance for developing countries, and wildlife adaptation to respond to actual or expected changes. Technology spending, the largest category, grew from $2.56 billion to $5.5 billion over this period, increasingly advancing over others in total share. Data compiled by Joanne Nova at the Science and Policy Institute indicates that the U.S. Government spent more than $32.5 billion on climate studies between 1989 and 2009. This doesn’t count about $79 billion more spent for climate change technology research, foreign aid and tax breaks for “green energy.” The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria

    so yes I stand by my billions. It's just stupid to think the IPCC would cherry-pick data that undermines their entire purpose for existing.

  14. Re:Why not? on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    I hope you realise that Shatner is an idiot, Detroit gets a significant portion of it's water from lake Huron through a 120 inch pipe and sells a portion to Flint, additionally Flint is putting in another pipeline north of the DWSD pipeline, an 80 inch pipeline; Shanter's 48 inch pipe is meaningless.

  15. Re:Here's a better idea on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    Interesting, in Michigan farmers who grow alfalfa, cut it and let it lay until it's dry before they bale it. That way you don't lose the water, it stays local. I can't even imagine how you would ship wet baled alfalfa to china in a ship without it catching fire from the fermentation! It's hard to imagine exporting Alfalfa to China period, but stranger things have happened, I'd imagine the shipping would be several times the cost of the alfalfa.

  16. I would think that Bayer's patent on Heroin ran out a long time ago, Heroin overdose is supposedly a gentle pleasant way to die.

  17. Here's a list of devices and carriers that are supported now.

  18. Re: pacific northwest on Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help · · Score: 1

    We'll sell them a few bottles of Vernors to help out.

  19. Re:Skating, not butthole surfing on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    Of course the United Nation's Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate would cherry pick data that could cost them $Billions in funding and the opertunity for Climatologists to attend conferences in exotic locations all over the world.

  20. Re:Vimeo on Ask Slashdot: Options Beyond YouTube For An Indie Web Show? · · Score: 1

    I suspect that his intended audience has a deep-seat dis-trust of establishment types, and the Youtube/Google conglomerate have long since out ran their antiestablishmentarianism days!

  21. Re:Skating, not butthole surfing on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 0

    Either it's sarcasm or you're an idiot, because it's easy to release carbon. What's hard is putting it back in the bottle.

    No what's hard is convincing people that what was happening 18 years ago isn't happening now.

    The IPCC AR5 notes the lack of warming since 1998:

    [T]he rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012) [is] 0.05 [–0.05 to +0.15] C per decade)which is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012) [of] 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] C per decade. IPCC AR5 weakens the case for AGW

    OMG is that actually a negative warming in the range of possibilities reported by the IPCC?

  22. Re:They're called trees. on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    Biochar puts carbon in the soil, improves the soil, sometimes dramatically, and keeps it there for mostly likely millennia.

  23. Re:They're called trees. on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    It's encouraging that Taylor gets it, but the real problem is going to be convincing the the guitarists and violinists; there is a lot of superstitions involved in luthiery and especially in the classical markets. Currently most ebony available for reasonable priced instruments has had a coat of Lincoln black shoe dye applied to it, but admitting it publicly would kill your market. Everyone who considers themselves an elite performer is going to think that B grade Ebony is OK for the masses, but they'll get the "good" stuff because they are special, and a lot of mediocre players consider themselves elite performers.

    The only reason they use ebony is because Stradivarius and Torres didn't have plastic.

  24. Re:Decent on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 1

    What he just did was remove all money worries from his staff. Now all their focus can go on increasing the value of his business.

    Hopefully, but in most cases, bills tend to rise to meet available cash for some reason. Often when household incomes hit the $70K-$140K range depending on location, household money management starts to get strategic instead of purely tactical and things change.

  25. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    the NASA Aqua has on board a radiometer that measures the upward microwave radiation from molecules in the Earth's lower troposphere. these radiometers are calibrated against both an on-board platinum wire thermometer and the Cosmic Microwave Background. From these readings the temperature of the air can be calculated.

    Data are available as global, hemispheric, zonal, and gridded averages. The global average covers 97-98% of the earth's surface, excluding only latitudes above +85 degrees, below -85 degrees and, in the cases of TLT and TMT, some areas with land above 1500 m altitude. The hemispheric averages are over the northern and southern hemispheres 0 to +/-85 degrees. The gridded data provide an almost global temperature map
    UAH satellite temperature dataset Geographic coverage